Mangere's Idlewild Superette has been robbed.
Police are putting tape around the Idlewild Ave store as a police investigator examines Zigzag cigarette papers.
The store owner is turning away customers.
The store neighbours the Idlewild Laundromat, Nice Food Takeaway and Village Bakehouse.
The Idlewild Superette store owner, who wished to remain unnamed, said she was halfway towards the back of the store when she heard a noise and ran to the toilet area.
"I called the police immediately," she said.